1. Martin luther king/The purpose of language
... to be a positive depiction. But is the word extremist's lack of explicit meaning a bad thing? Or is this lack of explicit meaning essential for the English language? Martin Luther King indirectly argues in his "Letter from Birmingham jail" that words having no explicit meaning are for the good of the English language, since it allows him to further his case and clarify ... with one's enemies, so extreme and so accepted among the clergymen that they have devoted their entire lives to this way of living. So when the clergymen "speak of our [King's] action in Birmingham as extreme"(6) they...
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